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In Pengi you are a cute little penguin who wanders around a freezer dodging snow bees and kicking ice-cubes at them. The idea is to kill all the nasty bees in this way, or alternatively entice them onto the surrounding fence, where you can electrocute them.

Another way of moving onto the next screen is to line up the three diamonds lying around - not as easy as it sounds. (Don't kick the diamonds into the corners of the screen because you won't be able to kick them out again.) As the game progresses, more and more bees appear, and as you work your way through the thirty screens, you wonder why they keep coming back for more.

The program is well documented and is 100 per cent machine code. It includes a high score table and a practice mode in which you can play to your heart's content without getting killed. Other features are - redefinable keys; sound on or off; pause and various bonuses.

The game is of a very high standard. Colour, sound and graphics are used to their full extent, although the game isn't as original and exciting as I would have liked. The thirty ice-cube mazes are almost identical but, I must admit, it's addictive.

Jonathan Gill